Pseudo Rule Breaking
Sometimes you can listen to an album, put it neatly in it's case, and slide it back into your CD rack, knowing it will grace your ears again in the future. Sometimes you hastily cram it into the darker recesses and hope you never get drunk enough to want to hear it again, and sometimes you never know what you'll do with it. Barcode are guilty of this, because a band who constantly break the 'Safety Rules' of music should sound terrible, but when they don't, it's pretty interesting.
Whenever another 'Look at us freestyle and push the boundaries!' album is released, a collective sigh can be heard from everyone because they know that usually it means the technicality will either be forgotten, or be so focused on it becomes bland. Fortunately, Barcode know to make a song first and an experiment second, but the playing is tight enough to impress even the most obsessive Liquid Tension Experiment solo fan.
Songs of note are "No Lust For Life" and the excellent cover of Accept's "I'm a rebel", which is taken up a good few notches by these bizarre Danish psychos.
Barcode are a very interesting animal, and whilst they may be alienating their audience just a bit at the moment, I feel that they will be making a big splash on the music scene soon. That's if they don't break the rules of physics involving water first.